Prevent Spotify from starting when your computer boots by disabling automatic startup.
- Open “Spotify“.
- Select “Edit‘ > “Preferences” in Microsoft Windows or “Spotify” > “Preferences” in MacOS.
- Scroll all the way to the bottom and select the “Show Advanced Settings” button.
- Scroll to the “Startup and Window Behaviour” section.
- For the “Open Spotify automatically after you log into the computer” setting, use the drop-down menu to select “No“.
The setting is automatically saved once it’s selected. Now Spotify should no longer automatically launch whenever you start your computer. I should mention that I discovered a service called “SpotifyWebHelper” that allows you to start Spotify from a web page. You can disable “SpotifyWebHelper” from starting by turning the “Allow Spotify to be started from the Web” setting to “Off“.
Brandon – Right click your start bar, open Task Manager .. click the “Startup” tab, Right Click on Spotify, and “disable”
Anyone find a solution for this? I am having the same problem, and am about ready to uninstall Spotify altogether. I rarely use Spotify as it is, ever since the terrible UI update (current look). I am using WIndows 10, Spotify 1.0.58.573.g57c9cd87
I disabled spotify in the startup tab of Windows 10’s Task Manager and since then its stopped its auto start .. now I just need to find out which registry key the one remaining spotify reference is, so I can delete that from those startups.
haven’t heard word 1 from spotifycares, as usual too little to late from them.
I have the same experience as TG2: “Spotify updated two days ago, and since then even with the “no” selected, it still starts after logging in.”.
Driving me mad:
– i was not asked by Spotify if they can autostart the tool
– i did not give my conscent to Spotify to change my settings to autostart
– “No” is selected in the advanced settings and STILL it starts automatically.
Am considering to delete Spotify.
Broken yet again, Spotify updated two days ago, and since then even with the “no” selected, it still starts after logging in.
Love hate relationship with Spotify .. I prefer their version before the “paints it black” edition where (ver .9x) when it got rid of skins, added all this space around the titles etc … horrible program ever since .. if not this auto start crap, its the plays or pauses because it finds the “device” from my phone which has spotify installed.
And spotify refuses to really acknowledge user complaints.
Thx. Very clear step by step.
Thank you!
Thanks, awesome!
you rock!
… thanks for the tip … it is annoyable spotify starting at startup …